Progress on upgrading the Lane for Premier League?

[snootyfenooty]

What happens when, like Wednesday, we start to average 70,000 a game?

We'll be the new massive

 

[Lazerblade]

I went Yesterday (mon 6th) and the media center looks miles off as LJ said. The steel structure is up but no cladding as yet.

On a side issue I was a bit miffed to find out that your st no longer gets you any discount.

 

[Scarebus]

I went Yesterday (mon 6th) and the media center looks miles off as LJ said. The steel structure is up but no cladding as yet.

On a side issue I was a bit miffed to find out that your st no longer gets you any discount.

Gets you a 1 off 20% discount. Automatically applied online, not sure how it works in the shop

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

We currently have a lot of band-wagon jumpers who may easily get bored if we spent 5-10 seasons at mid-table.

And we also have a lot of previous season ticket holders who missed out due to not renewing in time. We’d also have more tourists coming in for the odd game paying on the day.
I believe we’d average 40k over the season. Even if we’d been in the top league for multiple seasons.

 

[bromtom]

5-6k on the South, new frontage, tie in with Sheffield Hallam and put some classrooms in it for Sports finance or some other weird course for a bit of dosh in the pot.

3K on the back of the Kop, pillars chopped up and melted down in a ritual attended by all Kop season ticket holders, poured into a mould to create Billy's statue.

New concourses, take the hit on it and make it cheap as you can so it's full.

Perfect.

 

[Birdwell Blade]

We should be thinking about increasing the capacity at the Lane. The demand to fill it would be there if we were ambitious and things went well for us. Its not over the top for us to be thinking of a 46k capacity stadium for example.

South Stand needs to be done first as this is the hub of the club and the face which all our guests and future potential signings will see. Make it bold and brash and it shows that we have confidence in ourselves as a club.

I get the argument that it make sense to add on to the back of the existing kop, and there are many valid reasons why this makes sense. However in a perfect world it would be demolished, the historic spoil heap removed and proper foundations put in and a fit for purpose 21st century stand built in its place with a slightly steeper rake and higher elevation. This would really bring our stadium into a top quality stadium again. It is my personal preference, but it needs to be last on the list behind the team, the training academy facilities, and the South Stand being improved.

If we get it right on the pitch and off it now, we could really set the club up for many years and our children / grandchildren to enjoy for many years after we have all shuffled off to the Shoreham Street in the sky.

Great post

 

[Birdwell Blade]

It looked like that three weeks ago when I was last down there!

It still looks like it today, just been down for some gear

 

[LJBlade]

Gets you a 1 off 20% discount. Automatically applied online, not sure how it works in the shop

Lazerblade

You go to the ticket office with your season ticket and they give you the 20% off voucher. One voucher per season ticket but only one voucher needed per transaction.

 

[Bennyand the Blades]

I think you'll find every thing has to be portable, for in case we have to take it all back down again next season...…...

 

[Sheffsteel]

Gets you a 1 off 20% discount. Automatically applied online, not sure how it works in the shop

I bought 3 shirts the other day.
The shop explained that I had to go to the ticket office to collect my 20% off voucher.
I had my adult ST plus a child’s season ticket, so was able to have 2 discount vouchers. I’ll use the other voucher just before Christmas.

Just seen that LJBlade has explained it above.

 

[BushBlade]

I think you'll find every thing has to be portable, for in case we have to take it all back down again next season...…...

Why not just leave it there for the season after?

 

[fintious maximus]

I went Yesterday (mon 6th) and the media center looks miles off as LJ said. The steel structure is up but no cladding as yet.

On a side issue I was a bit miffed to find out that your st no longer gets you any discount.

You have to get a 20% off voucher from the ticket office but it’s a one off - i.e you can only use it once

 

[metalblade]

Was down there today I can't see it being finished for the first home game loads to be done by the looks of things, holes in the car park, scaffolding up near the hotel and the new media place is still just steel girders and bugger all else.

 

[Pedro Verde is my aunt]

How do we fund ground expansion?
If we were to increase our capacity by say 6,000 be it on the Kop or South Stand, then I reckon it may bring in extra revenue of 4 million / year max. That supposes we manage to fill these new seats.

How much does it cost to extend the ground to allow such an increase in capacity? 50 million at least to do it on the cheap.

Club saddled with long term debts.

Much rather spend on team building now, consolidate Premier league position and then improve the ground in say 3 years time.

I remember the South stand being built, signing Chris Guthrie and then getting relegated.

Don't let history repeat itself.

 

[TaxiBlade]

Appreciate the effort and some of the drawings look really good. Love the look of the 3 tier with a slight wrap around.

Thanks, yes, that's the one that would somehow knit together in the corner with the SS extension plans, which I like.

I would be a mini-version of St James though, and I think it looks too lopsided. We have more room than them, so I hope we do a better job.

When the JS stand was being built, (posted pictires in here) it's way too far back, and hence small. (I know money restraints etc.) - you next section, says it. I was just adding my thoughts to what I'd do (with several lottery wins)

The issue to consider though is that McCabe is a professional property developer.
His team of experts will have spent many weeks considering every single possible option, plan A, B, C, D and plan E with costings and return on investment.
No doubt there will be issues that no one has even thought about.

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Liverpool recently expanded their stadium and built behind the current stand, so there was no loss of capacity.
The “no reduction of stadium capacity” were the massive benefits of the current designs regards our Kop and South stand.
The other benefits were bringing in an income 365 days out of year, regardless of relegation.
So the unpopular stuff like office blocks, rental accommodation, catering/ banqueting facilities are a big advantage to a club.... if put in the right places.

I think there was a slight loss of capacity, but even if not, the South Stand would be hugely restricted, and the kop (if rebuilt which would be my choice) will also lose capacity.

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I don't mind executive boxes, I don't mind businesses within the premises... but an office block taking out an entire corner, is utterly out of the question for me. It's not like the JS/BL

I can forgive the JS/BL corner as at least it now houses a scoreboard to it has some use... but it's a small space.

The Kop corner with the SS as an entire office block with no viewing facilities. No way for me. This is a huge place for more capacity if ever need.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I went Yesterday (mon 6th) and the media center looks miles off as LJ said. The steel structure is up but no cladding as yet.

On a side issue I was a bit miffed to find out that your st no longer gets you any discount.

The pigs are already ahead of us in their certain promotion this season.

 

[metalblade]

That shipping container in the car park might be the new media centre cut some window holes out on one side and sit it on the girders, got to be good enough for jug ears and his cronies.

 

[Original United]

It still looks like it today, just been down for some gear

So that's where all this money for transfers has come from, explains it all

 

[Birdwell Blade]

So that's where all this money for transfers has come from, explains it all

Haha, not that sort of gear

 

[snootyfenooty]

How do we fund ground expansion?
If we were to increase our capacity by say 6,000 be it on the Kop or South Stand, then I reckon it may bring in extra revenue of 4 million / year max. That supposes we manage to fill these new seats.

How much does it cost to extend the ground to allow such an increase in capacity? 50 million at least to do it on the cheap.

Club saddled with long term debts.

Much rather spend on team building now, consolidate Premier league position and then improve the ground in say 3 years time.

I remember the South stand being built, signing Chris Guthrie and then getting relegated.

Don't let history repeat itself.

Its you who belongs in history with daft comments like that. The financial rewards on offer for being in the premier league are for the purpose of competing with the rest both in terms of team and ground improvement. We're talking about more than a couple of million too which is probably the bit you and the others bleating about this can't comprehend.

 

[metalblade]

Went down to the lane this morning and they have the walls on Gary Lineker's kennel. I think they might have been working late last night

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Bit of detail in this video. £5 million spent in the ground or possibly even the floodlights alone.

 

[FATTYFOULKE]

Bit of detail in this video. £5 million spent in the ground or possibly even the floodlights alone.

Wow , 5 media suites. We’re lucky in the sense we have two stands with good facilities capable of fitting in the infrastructure required for the premier league.

Some clubs going up wouldn’t be able to do it because they wouldn’t have any stands capable of fitting them in.

Hillsborough for instance.

 

[S64 Blade]

Wow , 5 media suites. We’re lucky in the sense we have two stands with good facilities capable of fitting in the infrastructure required for the premier league.

Some clubs going up wouldn’t be able to do it because they wouldn’t have any stands capable of fitting them in.

Hillsborough for instance.

Makes you wonder how Bournemouth have managed it?

 

[FATTYFOULKE]

Makes you wonder how Bournemouth have managed it?

It does but I’ve never been there so couldn’t comment.

I have however done work inside the Swill a few years ago and they have the one ageing stand to work with, they’d be limited by space IMO.

 

[Blade56]

It does but I’ve never been there so couldn’t comment.

I have however done work inside the Swill a few years ago and they have the one ageing stand to work with, they’d be limited by space IMO.

Cabins int park would be their solution

 

[mcbladeface]

Wow , 5 media suites. We’re lucky in the sense we have two stands with good facilities capable of fitting in the infrastructure required for the premier league.

Some clubs going up wouldn’t be able to do it because they wouldn’t have any stands capable of fitting them in.

Hillsborough for instance.

Nah! There's plenty of empty seats though. Rip a few of them out, slap a bit of rustoleoum down, rent a few portakabins and stack 'em up.

(Somewhere in pitsmoor, a man angrily fires up twitter and starts writing tweeting about crowd averages in 1985)

 

[43.nm]

Nah! There's plenty of empty seats though. Rip a few of them out, slap a bit of rustoleoum down, rent a few portakabins and stack 'em up.

(Somewhere in pitsmoor, a man angrily fires up twitter and starts writing tweeting about crowd averages in 1985)

porkakabins

 

[Melbourne Blade]

Does anyone have any pics of the ground etc? Looks like dugouts are completely new and of course the corner media centre. How different are the floodlights?

 

[Dkc]

Here's the extended media centre in the South Stand. They've take over some of the best seats in the stand, at the top and right in the centre